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NPD May 2012 Sales Results [Up4: Max Payne 3, Dragon's Dogma, Ghost Recon]

Nirolak

Mrgrgr

Elginer

Member
Damn, Vita is in some serious trouble. Every system is doing kind of balls. We need a new gen now. Come on Sony and MS, give us the new juice! Dragon's Dogma deserved a hell of a lot better, great game.
 

Gartooth

Member
People think about this....how bad will the Wii U bomb?

Seriously the Wii U is the next Vita.

It's too early to be honest. The Wii U's launch at the moment looks like a high risk/ high reward scenario. The worst case scenario is that it is another 3DS in which the core keep it afloat during the holiday, and then it drops during Q1 2013.

The best case scenario is that Nintendo surprises everyone and between NSMBU, Wii Fit U, and Nintendoland, manages to get the casuals to come back. (of course that also depends on cost and marketing)

Normally I would agree with you in that the Wii U won't succeed, but if history has taught us anything:

1) Never count out Nintendo

2) GAF doesn't have a clue when it comes to the casual market (Kinect launch)
 
Vita continuing to circle the drain

The optimism after a 6k weekly increase in sales in the Media Create sales shows how poor this system is doing.
 

Jubbly

Member
Calling Max Payne 3 a disaster based on NPD's limited data set is extremely unfair. To date it's still in the top 10 Top Sellers on Steam, tons of other digital outlets are selling it, and the rest of the world isn't factored in either.

To date Max Payne 1 & 2 has sold 7.5 million copies to date: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...V_Passes_22M_Shipped_Franchise_Above_114M.php There's a good chance MP3 could do at least half that figure, so let's just wait for official numbers from Take Two's next shareholder call before proclaiming it a massive failure.
 
The 360 and PS3 need to be $199 like, yesterday. You can't beat your chests over high ASPs during a recession.

Take Two wanted to sell 5 million copies of Max Payne. They're pretty much fucked.
 
3DS

May 2011 - 97k
May 2012 - 113.5k

NDS

May 2005 - 57k
May 2006 - 146k
May 2007 - 423k
May 2008 - 452.6k
May 2009 - 633.5k
May 2010 - 383.7K

PSP

May 2005 - 250k
May 2006 - 159.6k
May 2007 - 221k
May 2008 - 182.3k
May 2009 - 100.4k
May 2010 - 59.4k

Man, that DS was like an unstoppable killing machine in 2009.

And it is pretty telling to see a PC game at the number one spot this month.... A retail PC game no less... Sure it's Diablo III, but retail PC gaming (AKA: physical boxed copies) has been on life support for years now. Impressive!
 

user_nat

THE WORDS! They'll drift away without the _!
If generation fatigue is the reason for everything being so bad, why aren't the 3DS and PSV doing better?

I have a hard time believing the DS wasn't doing far better in it's second May. I just can't find any numbers from May 2006.
 

Pooya

Member
Nintendo family has sold 285k units of hardware!

In May, Nintendo sold more than 285,000 units of portable and console hardware. At the E3 Expo in Los Angeles last week, Nintendo revealed a massive slate of first- and third-party games on the way for Nintendo 3DS and the upcoming Wii U console. Further details about Nintendo's E3 announcements can be found here: http://e3.nintendo.com. We're looking forward to a strong second half of 2012.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/14/m...and-360s-sold-sony-sees-strong-res/#continued
 

Pranay

Member
Hmm. Can look at Nintendo's IR charts at least for the first 3 months of the year.

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Overlayed 2011/10 with 2012 - too many lines, hard to read - but doesn't seem as down % wise as the US.

Interesting
 

Boney

Banned
Yeah, but that was almost an assured lost when the game had a 150 person core development team and a four year development cycle.

To put this in prospective, Resident Evil 6 has the same core development team size.

They'll probably just take a huge loss on it but establish a new "succesful" new ip. It should be interesting to see what we can expect from DD in the near future, more so than this specific installment honestly.

Especially for Japan.
 

Nirolak

Mrgrgr
They'll probably just take a huge loss on it but establish a new "succesful" new ip. It should be interesting to see what we can expect from DD in the near future, more so than this specific installment honestly.

I feel this strategy can work well if you end up with a title that costs like $50 million + $30 million marketing due to development hell, but sells 1.5-2 million copies.

I don't think this works well if you're at <100K launch in the U.S., unless you intend to switch to the platform that is strong in your good region.
 

Fjordson

Member
Calling Max Payne 3 a disaster based on NPD's limited data set is extremely unfair. To date it's still in the top 10 Top Sellers on Steam, tons of other digital outlets are selling it, and the rest of the world isn't factored in either.

To date Max Payne 1 & 2 has sold 7.5 million copies to date: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...V_Passes_22M_Shipped_Franchise_Above_114M.php There's a good chance MP3 could do at least half that figure, so let's just wait for official numbers from Take Two's next shareholder call before proclaiming it a massive failure.
I said this before when in the Max Payne OT in regards to a friend saying that MP 3 was getting "low review scores" (86 on Metacritic): their open world games have set a crazy high bar for the Rockstar brand as far as general acclaim and sales. Especially after they were able to shift a bunch of GTA's audience onto Red Dead. People love that stuff. But their other non open-world stuff, like LA Noire, Bully, or Max Payne, simply doesn't seem to catch on in the same way. In the shadows of GTA and Red Dead, they look like disappointments.

That being said, it sounds like these numbers for software are pretty crummy all around, so maybe it really is a straight up bomba.
 

1-D_FTW

Member
What a wreck.

Not a Diablo fan myself, but it is nice to see a PC game squarely #1.

Dragon's Dogma, Vita, and Max Payne seem like the biggest losers. And with MP3, people need to take into account this game has been constantly advertised. They spent major money on advertising.
 

Zee-Row

Banned
Even though sales are low I don't think calling for new consoles is gonna help. People will be less than thrilled to pay $399 Which is what I assume the PS4 and Next Box will cost.
 

Bruno MB

Member
I applaud Capcom for taking a huge risk developing a new RPG IP.

In Japan it will end up selling 500k units, and with an eventual budget re-release + DLC integrated it can sell 200k units more.

Unfortunately that's not enough for getting a sequel once we know its abysmal western sales. This was a game supposed to appeal to a western audience, an audience that had already rejected Monster Hunter.
 

John Harker

Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I dunno, considering the depressed market in general, I think both MP3 and GRFS did fine. I can't speak for profitability or anything like that, but it was written on the wall we are having big declines MoM in software sales. The two were real close too.
 

Beth Cyra

Member
I applaud Capcom for taking a huge risk developing a new RPG IP.

In Japan it will end up selling 500k units, and with an eventual budget re-release + DLC integrated it can sell 200k units more.

Unfortunately that's not enough for getting a sequel once we know its abysmal western sales. This was a game supposed to appeal to a western audience, an audience that had already rejected Monster Hunter.

I can see DD becoming a big series in japan on 3DS or even Vita.

Not exctited to hear a bunch of fans crying for it to be on PS4/Xbox3 though.
 

Elios83

Member
Terrible numbers for everyone, the industry is going down pretty quickly as we get close to the end of the current consoles lifecycle.
I think that price drops for 360, PS3, Vita, Wii will be inevitable later this year.
I'm not sure how much they will be effective though because people are getting bored of COD and AC every year and every other big alternative has been delayed to 2013.
In this state of things, if the market is interested in something new, Nintendo could find itself at the right moment with WiiU, although sales will be limited by the initial production capacity.
 

Boney

Banned
I feel this strategy can work well if you end up with a title that costs like $50 million + $30 million marketing due to development hell, but sells 1.5-2 million copies.

I don't think this works well if you're at <100K launch in the U.S., unless you intend to switch to the platform that is strong in your good region.

What do you think the future of DD will be? Would you consider it better to focus on other old properties or new ip's, especially ones gearing up for next generation consoles a lá Dead Rising or do you think it'll be helpful to offset the costs of this initial investment by reusing the DD assets and design documents.

oh and fuck you capcom MML3 would've done better than that ;_;
 

Kusagari

Member
I applaud Capcom for taking a huge risk developing a new RPG IP.

In Japan it will end up selling 500k units, and with an eventual budget re-release + DLC integrated it can sell 200k more units.

Unfortunately that's not enough for getting a sequel once we know its abysmal western sales. This was a game supposed to appeal to a western audience, an audience that had already rejected Monster Hunter.

They knew what they had to do to appeal to westerners. The game, from the moment it was announced, screamed co-op. By not putting it in they sealed its death in the western market. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
 

Mooreberg

is sharpening a shovel and digging a ditch
Not surprsed by the home console hardware numbers. They have been out for a long time now, and are not at the price they should be.

This is looking like the slowest year of the cycle for software releases, so declines there would not surprise me either. When did they start counting PC retail? I don't really pay attention to this stuff like I used to.

I have to wonder why Microsoft is waiting so long to introduce their next system. 360 came out in 2005. I could understand wanting to ride out the recession before introducing a new $399 system but it doesn't look like that line of reasoning is going to pan out. In Sony's case I have to imagine the rest of the company being a cluster fuck will have them sticking with PS3 until next fall.
 

Speevy

Banned
I wonder what would result from a release of three (really) unsuccessful consoles.

New console makers?

Mergers?

An end to traditional consoles altogether?
 
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